Go back to the end of the Ming Dynasty to be a soldier

Chapter 360

Lin Yi's 10,000+ army marched out of Jinzhou, mighty and mighty, with banners unfurled, trumpets fluttering, swords and guns dazzling, covering the sky and the sun.

There are cavalry and infantry, and rows of new muskets in the musket battalion look mighty and solemn.There is also the supply camp, with five or six hundred cannons in red clothes, driven by thousands of soldiers to drive away the livestock, forming a long queue.

There are naval warships that transport them across the Xiaoling River, then across the Daling River, and continue to advance northward.

That scene is more than a spectacular!
As early as the Wanli period, the army of the Ming Dynasty did not dare to operate outside Jinzhou City. The Battle of Salhu in 1619 can be said to be a disgrace to the Ming army and the rise of the Jin Dynasty.

With only 6 troops, Nurhachi defeated the four-way army of the Ming Dynasty. The 10,000+ Ming army suffered more than half of the casualties. Nurhachi set a classic example of "no matter which way you come from, I just fight all the way." An immortal legend, this is the strategic decisive battle between Hou Jin and Ming Dynasty, which directly led to the rise of Hou Jin.

Since that battle, the Hou Jin army has conquered more than 70 cities of the Ming army in a row, and its capital has also been moved from Hetuala city to Shengjing, which is later known as Shenyang.

Since then, the frontier troops of the Ming Dynasty did not dare to cross Jinzhou easily, and only left a skin island to contain the Jin (Qing) army, but they were soon uprooted by others.

Although Sun Chengzong, Yuan Chonghuan and other famous generals managed Liaodong and created the myth of defeating the elite of the Eight Banners, in general, the battle between the Ming Dynasty and the Later Jin (Qing) army lost more than it won, and it has been handed down that "the Jin army is no more than ten thousand, and more than ten thousand cannot fight. "

After that, Jinzhou, Ningyuan and other important military towns fell one after another, until the Qing army entered Guanda, and the Ming Dynasty perished.

Now Ji Dong's time travels against the sky. In just eight years, a small soldier of the border army became the supervisor of the Ming Dynasty, and the battle against the Tartars also expanded from inside the pass to outside the pass. Not only did he win the battle of Shanhaiguan, but also Ningyuan Jinzhou was conquered, and now Jinzhou has been attacked, pointing at the imperial capital of the Qing Dynasty.

Since Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, several generations of emperors dared not even dream about it. After Wanli, the emperor was only keen on carpentry, and he didn't care much about the Ningjin defense line outside the pass. In the future, brothers and sisters will be Chongzhen Yes, although the Ningjin line of defense outside the pass had been brilliant, it ended in failure.

This strongly stimulated the plundering desire of the Tartars. They knocked on the gates every now and then, at most twice a year. They trapped the capital of the Ming Dynasty in Beijing, plundered 10,000+ people and livestock, and countless gold, silver and jewels. There are too many crimes to describe.

When Emperor Chongzhen was in a state of desperation, he still dreamed of peace talks with the Tartars, and even thought of the compromise policy of "promise to give them whatever they want".

At that time, not to mention fighting outside Jinzhou City, the Ming army did not even dare to go outside Shanhaiguan. Of course, it is the common people, displaced, homeless, and their lives are worthless. Think about what it was like at that time.

Those days are gone forever, and now Lin Yi personally commands the 10,000+ army of the Ming Dynasty to fight out of Jinzhou City with great arrogance, and wants to fight back to the hometown of the Tartars.

What kind of air and prestige is this? !
This is a new atmosphere that has rarely been seen in the Ming Dynasty for more than 1619 years since 20.

Now these soldiers of the Ming army, whether they are cavalry or infantry, have their faces upturned, their chests straightened, their waists straightened, their eyes piercing, looking into the distance and looking down at the earth. .”

However, on the way, Lin Yi told his generals that from now on, the policy towards the Qing army would be changed, that they would no longer kill and surrender, and allow them to surrender as captives.

"Brother Lin, why is that?" It was Xiaoying who asked in puzzlement again.

Lin Yi smiled and said: "The reason why we used to kill the Tartars and traitors and not allow them to surrender is because they were aggression and committed heinous crimes, so they should be punished like that. But now it is different, we never Now, let’s go abroad, what we are launching is a war of conquest, not a war of aggression by the Tartars, if we kill them all, who else will we conquer.”

"Brother Lin, the imperial capital of the Qing Dynasty was also the territory of the Ming Dynasty, including Hetuala City, the capital of the Houjin Dynasty, which was also the territory of the daimyo. It is said that Nurhachi was the stable boy of the Ming general Li Chengliang. It was only later that they rose between the white mountains and the black waters. , according to this, they should all be wiped out."

"If you want to say that, it will be endless. Where did the territory before the Ming Dynasty come from? It's too long ago, it's history, it's the business of the ancestors, we won't talk about it, but the past two years What happened in the past 30 years is something that our two generations have experienced, so we have to talk about it.”

"Brother Lin, according to what you say, our sending troops outside Jinzhou City this time is not an invasion?"

"This is not an aggression, it is a just war, and we want to teach those Manchu Tartars a lesson. They started the war first, not us. Besides, as you said just now, the Qing Dynasty is fine, and the war will come later." Whether it’s Jin or not, their territory used to belong to Daming, and they’re all border tribes of Ming, so now we’re conquering them, not aggression.”

"Oh, the more I listen, the more confused I become."

"You better be confused, girl, you will understand later."

Ji Dong thought in his heart, this girl would ask endless questions, and he had no words to explain to her.

In fact, who can tell clearly about the relationship between the state and the nation?Right and wrong, for thousands of years, disputes have been endless, and what has been playing out is the law of the jungle, that is, the jungle of the jungle and the survival of the fittest.

Princes and generals, would you rather be kind?Jiangshan Sheji is the world of everyone, not the world of one family and one surname. The virtuous live in it, and the virtuous lose it.

In a word, the winner is the king and the loser, the mouth is two skins, so it makes sense!

Listening to the conversation between Lin Yi and Xiaoying, Zhezhe covered his mouth and smiled, and didn't interrupt, willing to be an audience.

In any case, Lin Yi's military order has been passed on. From now on, the Qing army is allowed to surrender, and the Tartars who surrendered will no longer be killed, and they must be treated differently.

Military orders are like mountains, especially Lin Yi's army, which has iron discipline, which can be summed up in eight words as orders and prohibitions.

10,000+ army soldiers and horses, everywhere they go is like a broken bamboo.Now the situation is completely reversed from a few years ago. Wherever the Ming army went, the Qing army fled. The Ming army was invincible, and sometimes it could defeat eight cities in a day.

There are still two or three hundred miles away from Shengjing, the capital of the Qing Dynasty, and victory is in sight.

During this period, the king of North Korea, Li Ji, secretly sent envoys again to ask Lin Yi and the [-] North Korean troops who entered the Qing Dynasty to cooperate with them, when to defect and how to defect.

Lin Yi responded to them with a smile, not in a hurry, there will be a place for them to use their talents at that time, North Korea came to reassure them, and happily went back by boat.

Shengjing, the capital of the Qing Dynasty, was in sight, and Lin Yi thought about changing his generals. If Song Xiance's calculations were accurate, Lin Danhan's wives should still be alive. For the sake of Bahrain and Ezhe, and for the sake of Daming and Chaha For the good sake of forming an alliance, you must be rescued to save them.

This is a plan of exchanging the dead for the living. Two dead people are used for one living person. To be precise, this living person is also a person whose life is not long. If you want to exchange a few living women from the imperial capital of the Qing Dynasty, the specific details must be carefully considered. some planning.

Because whether these people are living or dead, they are not ordinary people. Those who died are all powerful people, and those who are alive are all noble people.

Lin Yi dared to plan this kind of plan, because the women he wanted to save were not only Lin Danhan's wife and Bahrain and Er'e's mother, they also had an identity now, that is, the noble Qing Dynasty Concubine or Fujin, to put it bluntly, they are all the women of the Qing (former) emperors and princes.

To save such a few people is tantamount to stealing meat from a tiger's mouth.

When nothing happened along the way, Lin Yi also thought about it repeatedly, and promised to do things with people, and he must do things of loyalty, not to mention that this matter is very important to Daming, and the specific plan is now ready to come out.

The key to the strategy of changing generals lies in Hong Chengchou, and now he must be taken down.

Taking advantage of the night when they set up camp to rest, Lin Yi brought Zhang Hua and several other guards to the camp where Hong Chengchou was being held...

Lin Yi sent troops to Jinzhou City this time, of course he had to take Hong Chengchou with him, not only with him, but also with Prince Azig of the Qing Dynasty and Obai, the first warrior of the Qing Dynasty. Of course, these were two corpses.

Fortunately, the weather in this area is not too hot now, but it is also spring, so this is not acceptable, because it has been many days, and there is no freezer for corpses, so Lin Yi uses some wine and ice cubes to freeze it. This is in the northeast. Well, it's easy to find ice cubes in the spring season. Adding ice cubes to wine is good for preserving the corpses. Otherwise, the two corpses would have rotted and deteriorated long ago.

For the knife wounds and sword wounds on their bodies, a cobbler was called to sew and mend them.The hair falls out, re-grow them.Money rattails, put on armor and armor, in fact, the helmet and armor are full of ice and wine, otherwise people can't get close at all, so try to keep the corpse.

Three prison cars have been prepared, and now these two corpses, of course, cannot sit in the prison cars.

But along the way, Hong Chengchou was sitting in the prison car. When the soldiers left Jingzhou City, Lin Yi lifted him out of the prison, put him in the prison car, and escorted him away.

Hong Chengchou knew that he would definitely not survive this time. Falling into the hands of Lin Yi was probably worse than falling into the hands of the Emperor Chongzhen. When he was a courtier of the Ming Dynasty, he had heard that Lin Yi was very cruel to the Manchus and the Manchus. The traitors hate it to the bone, and those who are captured and killed will never be allowed to have prisoners.

When the two armies were at war, the Manchus and the traitors were defeated, and they would not be able to surrender, at least they would have to lose their heads. The most heinous crimes were torture such as splitting the car.

What bad luck, how did it fall into this person's hands?This time it seems guilty...

Hong Chengchou regrets it now, if he knew today, why bother?Regret that I should not surrender to the Qing Dynasty as a traitor.He also regretted that when Jinzhou City fell, he should have committed suicide cruelly.

In just a few years, he sat in Jinzhou and fell twice. The first time he fell into the hands of the Tartars as a Ming minister, and the second time he fell into the hands of the Ming army as a minister of the Qing Dynasty. It was too dramatic. This is really 30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi!

That is to say, he had two chances, if even once he made up his mind to end it himself, what happened today would not happen, it would be a pain of a knife at most.

Moreover, if he committed suicide for the first time, he would still have the reputation of being loyal to the emperor and serving the country, leaving his name in history.

If he committed suicide the last time, that is, when Lin Yi rushed into the Jinzhou commander's mansion a few days ago, he put his sword across his neck and couldn't do it after all. .

But it's too late to say anything now, I didn't grasp the two opportunities to kill myself, and now I can't die even if I want to, how can the surname Lin torture me.

Along the way, Hong Chengchou sat in the bumpy prison car, thinking wildly, and began to forget about food and drink. For several days, water and rice did not touch his lips.

When he was originally detained in Jinzhou City Prison, he decided that if he died, he would have to be a full-fledged ghost.

Because that hunger terrified him. It lasted for several months. First, he reduced the amount of food, from bottom to top, and finally reduced it all, and finally stopped it. He ate everything that could be eaten in the city, bark grass In the end, he couldn't hold it anymore, and it reached the point of cannibalism, which he witnessed with his own eyes.

So Ji Dong put him in prison, he would eat if he was given food, and he would drink if he was given to drink.

But then Ji Dong brought him out of the prison, and he felt that his end was coming.

Because people are afraid of death, and Hong Chengchou is no exception.

From this point of view, people are the same as animals.When threatened by pain, both humans and animals will tend to take advantage. This is an instinctive expression of the body, and it is the nature of humans and animals.

In this respect, fear of death is not shameful.

But the essential difference between humans and animals is that humans are rational and capable of thinking.No matter how powerful an animal is, it is afraid of death, but humans are different.Although he is also afraid of death, but for the sake of ideals and beliefs, for justice and truth, and for something worth insisting on, he believes that even death cannot give up and be shaken. This is an indomitable hero.

On the contrary, those who are afraid of death because they forget righteousness, seek only profit, turn black and white, and even kill others in order to save their own lives, and even betray the interests of the motherland and the people, are shameful ghosts who fear death.

Hong Chengchou is undoubtedly the latter.

He hasn't eaten or eaten in the past two days. He was already very thin, and he was trapped in Jinzhou for several months, so he was hungry and skinny. Now he has lost three rounds of weight. It is estimated that he is not as heavy as a woman on the scale now.

With protruding cheekbones and sunken eye sockets, he can only be described as scrawny, which means that if the cart is going to bump badly, his old bones can be shaken to pieces.

But along the way, the Ming army did not treat him badly, neither beat nor scolded him, nor interrogated him. He had three meals a day, ate, drank and sedated, just like ordinary people.

But how can he eat it?Every time the food was delivered, the soldiers took it away.

He thought it was Lin Yi who was going to send him to Beijing, the imperial capital of Daming in Guan Nei, for a public demonstration and to be sentenced to death.But then he saw that he was not going to pass, but to Shengjing, the imperial capital of the Qing Dynasty.

Could it be that he was dragged outside the city of Shengjing in front of Dorgon, the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang and his little master of Shunzhi, etc., to humiliate him, torture him, and then impose a severe punishment?

While thinking wildly, Lin Yi brought Zhang Hua and a few others in.

Seeing Lin Yi, Hong Chengchou was taken aback...

(End of this chapter)